Huge ambition and desire driving Limerick

It’s funny how the first shots of a revolution are often fired when a people are on their knees. 

When the Limerick hurlers went on strike in 2010, when the county’s hurling future looked in a perilous state, a group of people looked on the crisis as a turning point for Limerick hurling. They didn’t want to let the rot seep through and affect the underage set-up so the underage Academy was set up soon afterwards.

It hasn’t spawned any major senior success but it is working at underage; successive Munster minor titles, now a first All-Ireland U-21 crown in 13 years. Having been fortunate enough to be involved in the Academy since the beginning of this year I can say first-hand that it is definitely working. Limerick have huge talent coming. Great people are involved. Limerick is definitely a hurling county on the move.